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-          50 hours of field experience over a one week period

-          25 hours will be spent in active participation in wildcrafting, herb identification, gardening herbs, permaculture, foraging, preserving and cooking.

-          the remaining 25 hours will be spent in Herbal Medicine making, preparing the dispensary, bottles, labels, making herbal preparations, tinctures, salves, capsules etc.

 

Registration Requirements:

-          Pre registration with Dominion Herbal College is required

-          Student must complete “Student Enrolment Agreement & Contract” including verification of successful completion of the Chartered Herbalist Diploma Program or equivalent course of study. One reference required.

-          Meals and accommodation not included

 

Upon Successful Completion of Field Experience:

-     A certificate will be issued from Dominion Herbal College upon successful completion of the field experience.

-     Dominion Herbal College will accept these 50 hours towards any elective hours required in any course of study at Dominion.

 

Netta Zeberoff, C.H., M.H. R.H.P.   Field Experience Instructor

Your instructor Netta Zeberoff, was born in Nelson, B.C., to a traditional Doukhobor healing family.  Netta graduated from the Dominion Herbal College in l980, and is now, Master Herbalist. She is a prodigy of Ella Birzneck, and very honored to have been one of her apprentices.  An accomplished herbalist, she has been teaching, guiding nature walks, and lecturing for almost two decades. Netta will introduce new herbs and seeds for your garden, and take you on hikes through the beautiful Kootenay valleys, with its pristine forests, marshes, rivers, lakes and creeks, and teach you honorable and practical ways of gathering and making herbal medicine. Netta is currently enrolled in the Clinical Herbal Therapy Diploma Program at Dominion Herbal College.

 

Mother Earth truly has given us an abundance of herbs, we shall explore plants such as the lemon balm, spearmint, peppermint,  pipsissewa, arnica, native wild ginger, strawberries, raspberries, stinging nettles, catnip, comfrey, plantain, oregon grape, and more. We shall discuss their lore and uses and seasonally harvest, or forage, for our light lunch. In this program we shall use these and various herbs in the making of various herbal concoctions.

 

We welcome you to participate, without expectations of taking a trunk full of herbs home, just your notebooks and brains. There will be samples to try of everything we make and harvest (you can make new products to share with family and friends when you get home). These homemade items can be great gifts.

             

It is a pleasure to be able to share some of the treasures of the knowledge that my teachers and ancestors have passed on through the generations. With mutual respect we welcome you to our  'Herbal Cradle House' a place where one can find serenity in the tall wooded forests, laughter in the streams, and healing in one's heart, all in the process of learning the art and lore of Herbal Medicine, and Permaculture.

 

Sincerely, with Peace, Health, Love, Light, Joy and Harmony.

 

Netta Zeberoff

Field Experience Outline

50 hours

Capsules and pills - This is one of the most convenient ways to take herbs internally if you are traveling. We shall experiment with herbs explore and the art of making pills and capsules.

Compresses and Poultices - Simple ways of applying herbs for injuries.

           

Cooking - A vital integration of permaculture. We shall make healthy lunches, using domestic and wildcrafted herbs, and vegetables.

           

Decoctions - A more vigorous extraction for those roots and barks.

Foraging - We will look for wild edibles, and harvest with respect to our Mother Earth.

           

Gardening - Being self-sufficient is a lot of hard work. Permaculture is truly at its best when the household is able to produce everything for itself. This includes having enough of a milk, egg, vegetable produce for consumption, and enough compost / manure for organic gardening to nurture the population in ones' community.  Naturally this is all usually a lot easier when there is a group of dedicated people working together. Actual hands on work in the herbal gardens will be necessary for procuring one's certificate,  this would include, seeding, cultivating, weeding, preparing the ground for new herbs, planting, transplanting, thinning, fertilizing, pruning herbs. We shall review plans on planting an herbal garden.

Healing ointments and salves -  We shall make a first aid salve utilizing the different herbs that Mother Nature has to offer.

Infusions - We shall make several different kinds of infusions. Everyone will get a chance to sample of the different kinds of teas that one can make from our bountiful Mother Earth.

Lozenges - These are simple and economical to make. They are ideal for remedies to help the mouth, throat and upper respiratory tract. When they are taken this way, then they work where they are most needed. We shall combine our garden herbs, tinctures, and decoctions, in the experimentation episode of our lozenge making.

Oils - The active plant ingredients can be extracted or infused in an oil medium. The oil can then be used for massage oils, creams and ointments; there are many herbs available for fresh extractions.

Potassium Broth - These ingredients are readily available in one's kitchen. Easy to make, invigorating to drink.   

Steam inhalants - An ideal way to deal with conditions such as coughs, asthma, bronchial conditions.

           

Syrup - There are many various ways of extracting the medicinal ingredients from a plant. Onion syrup is one of the easiest cough syrups to make, but we shall also explore other herbs and syrups.

           

Suppositories and pessaries - These are designed to enable the insertion of remedies into the body using different kinds of herbs for different kinds of conditions.

           

Tinctures - This is a wonderful way of preserving the vital elements.  Some herbs need more than water to extract their vital elements.

Water based creams - A very nice way of making face creams and lotions. There is such an abundance of cosmetic herbs, right at our fingertips.

   

Wild crafting - Living so close to nature, with acres and acres of forests, meadows, valleys, and hillsides makes harvesting the wild herbs outdoors fun and interesting. Almost everything grows in this area from arnica, cleavers, uva ursi and so much more. Plants are seasonal, what one finds in the spring, is not always to be seen in the fall. Wildcrafting is also being abused by some, there is a wrong and a right way of doing things. We must always be thankful to our Mother Earth for everything she gives. There will be hands on identifying, and wild crafting conscientiously. 

           

The dispensary - You shall find out how to set up for your own dispensary. How to store these products, labeling the product.

The actions and folklore of herbs - We shall review the teachings of our ancestors, and the role that herbal substances have to play within the human body. There is so much to explore in the field of Herbal Medicine. During our daily herb identification walks we shall discuss the folklore of herbs, and take in the advice of our forefathers.

Student – Field  Information:

-          The traveling time to get to the place of practicum, is not included in the hours that are earned towards a certificate.

-          Student is required to participate in cleaning-up after the completion of all projects.

-          A daily journal, is expected to be written by each student

 

-          Items that the student needs to bring:

-Bring clothing in preparation for both sunshine and rainy weather.   It may happen to rain during a scheduled time to go on a nature, herb identification, mushroom walk.

-      Working clothes, these are a must in addition to your wardrobe.

-      Good working, walking shoes will keep your feet comfortable on our wildcrafting hikes.

-          It does get chilly when the sun does not shine and in the evenings here, please bring something warm to wear.

-          If you plan to camp at the campground, please bring your tent, sleeping bag, alarm clock, etc.

-          If you have special dietary needs, please bring what you need. Castlegar has a lovely health food store should you need to purchase anything.

 

NETTA’S COMMENTS  regarding Accommodations

There is a lot to choose from, so it is up to you where you would like to stay. Nelson is about forty - five minutes away. There are places from as close as ten minutes away from work site; it is all dependant on how well you can drive the Passcreek road.

 

There are modern campsites available only 10 minutes from work base. They are very reasonably priced at about $11.00 a night, including modern shower and washroom facility, as well as all the wood that one needs for their campfire. Passcreek Park  T: 250-304-2062

 

There is a bed and breakfast place very close by as well. You can phone Mountain Retreat Guest House at 1-250-365-8386, to make arrangements.

               Castlegar motels and hotels to chose from:

            : Best Western, ph. 250-365- 2158, $87.00 - $92.00

            : Days Inn ph. 250-365-2700, $65.00 - $75.00 

            : Monty Carlo ph. 250-365-2177, $52.00 - $55.00

            : Twin Rivers ph. 250-356-6900, $43.00 - $45.00

            : Cozy Pines ph. 250-365-5613, $43.00 - $53.00

                                             

For further information please contact;

Dominion Herbal College

7527 Kingsway

Burnaby, B.C. V3N 3C1

T: 604-526-8835   Fax:  604-526-1561

Email: herbal@uniserve.com

www: dominionherbal.com

OR

Netta Zeberoff  C.H., M.H.,R.H.P.

1853 Pass Creek Road

Castlegar, B.C., Canada, V1N 4S6

 

Tel: 1-250-365-3512

**contents of brochure subject to change when necessary

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